Dennis Quaid Moves to End Five-Figure Monthly Child Support for Twins

The actor filed to terminate payments to ex-wife Kimberly Buffington, arguing that twins Thomas and Zoe aging out of high school ends his obligation.

Dennis Quaid has filed to stop paying child support to his ex-wife Kimberly Buffington.
The payments are described in filings as five figures per month.
Quaid and Buffington share 17-year-old twins Thomas and Zoe.
Quaid's position is that high school graduation ends the support obligation.
Buffington has not yet publicly responded to the filing.

Dennis Quaid filed court paperwork seeking to terminate his monthly child support obligation to ex-wife Kimberly Buffington, according to a Page Six report dated May 29, 2026.

The payments are described in the filing as five figures per month. Quaid and Buffington, who divorced in 2018 after twelve years of marriage, share twins Thomas and Zoe, both 17.

Quaid's stated basis for termination is the twins' impending high school graduation — the position being that the milestone satisfies whatever threshold triggers the end of the support arrangement under the terms of their agreement or applicable California family law.

Buffington's legal team had not issued a public statement as of the filing date. The exact monthly figure was not specified in available public records at time of publication.

Thomas and Zoe were born in 2007, the same year Quaid made headlines for an unrelated matter involving a medication overdose at Cedars-Sinai — a detail that appears nowhere in the current filing.